My Ever Changing Moods by The Style Council

My Ever Changing Moods is what American record buyers got in 1984 instead of Café Bleu, the Style Council's first studio album: it was retitled for the States to cash in on the hit single of the same name and shuffled the running order a little. It's the sound of Paul Weller throwing the Jam's rulebook out the window. With Mick Talbot, his partner in founding the group, on keyboards, Weller plunges headlong into classic soul, jazz and even rap, and brings in guests dubbed the Honorary Councillors, among them Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt of Everything but the Girl.

Weller produced it with Peter Wilson, mostly at his own Solid Bond Studios, with the strings cut at CBS. Reviews were mixed, but at home it became the band's biggest album, parked on the UK chart for 38 weeks. The title track and "You're the Best Thing" were both top-10 singles there, though the hit take of "My Ever Changing Moods" was cut separately from the album track.

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